Scott Brown ‘Yea’ on New START

National Review Online - The Corner ^ | 12/19/2010 | Andrew Stiles

[Redbob]

Oh goody: Scott Brown is becoming a regular member with Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of the Weak-Kneed Sisters Club

[rlmorel]

Just to clarify why I asked you where you are from: I am from Massachusetts, and have lived here my entire voting life except the four years I was in the service.

I have never, EVER in my adult life as a voter, EVER had a representative in my congressional delegation that represented me.

Never.

In that special election, I was presented with a choice of Martha Coakley or Scott Brown. Having lived here for all these years with her as the Attorney General, I could barely stomach hearing her name, as her claim to fame is the famous Fells Acres Day Care abuse case, which was a complete, arrogant and embarrassing travesty of justice.

I maintain that unless you have lived under the shadow of legislators like this for your entire voting life (which for me began in 1975) you have no idea what it is like, no idea how incredibly frustrating that is to anyone who harbors any serious political thought.

Year after year, my elected representatives, ALL of them, have ALWAYS voted in ways 100% diametrically opposed to my poltical philosophies.

For the FIRST time in my entire life, I actually had a chance to vote for someone at the national level besides Kerry or Kennedy who sounded like he understood the concepts of military service and national defense, my key issues.

If you have had someone other than Kerry or Kennedy to vote for, you really cannot understand the abject shame of being one of their constituents. You just can’t. Sure, you may have one or two moonbats in your congressional delegation, but year after year, you don’t get a lineup like Kerry, Kennedy, Markey, Studds, Frank and so on.

So when I had a chance to vote for someone who was NOT Martha Coakley (If you don’t know Coakley, she would have been ten times worse than Kerry as a Senator because she is a brainless, ideological, kool-aid drinking dipstick. Kerry at least has a brain, albeit a poisoned, malformed and treasonous one) I pulled the lever for Scott Brown.

Do I regret it? You are damned right I do, but not for the reasons many on here probably would say they do. I regret it because I gambled and lost. If I didn’t vote for Brown, I would have voted for Coakley.

I lost not only in money donated, time donated and all that goes with that, but I have lost my will to live by the tenets of a supposedly democratic process.

You want to hear something that is disgusting and terrible? When I read yesterday that Massachusetts was one of the states projected to lose representation due to the recent census, my heart was filled with hope and a sense of perverted satisfaction.

Think about that. As someone who has lived his life in a form of political serfdom in this state, I feel joy that my voice will be heard even less than it is. And I am glad of it.

Unless you can understand how twisted that is, I don’t think you can understand the depths of policial desperation that real conservatives are driven to in an environment like this.

Do you know what stage I am at now? I want our government to fail, and fail completely. I want to see the general population here in Massachusetts rise up with torches, pitchforks, tar, feather and rails.

You have no idea how damned angry I am right now as I write this. I am near tears with anger. I want my country to crash and burn, because that seems like it is the only way to cure it now.

I love my country. My dad was a 30 year naval officer, I grew up and served myself. When my dad died, he was buried in Arlington. When I see the American flag go by in a parade, God damn it, I stand, uncover, and cover my heart every single time, even when nobody around me does and they look at me like I am from another planet.

This country has given me everything not given to me directly by God. I appreciate this country every single day, the freedoms that even still we enjoy.

You cannot imagine the anger and the black despair I feel as I write this. I want to do everything within the law to encourage my state to crumble. My home. Think about it. My home.

From this point forward, I will be voting for the most liberal and socialist candidates running for office in this state. There are no conservatives running for office here, so I want to get the worst people in place to accelerate the process.

I have given up expecting any Freepers to understand. Most of them who don’t live here have wonderful black and white advice: Leave the state. Great advice. It is similar to how I used to refer to California, hoping the land of fruit and nuts would simply slide into the ocean when the big one hits.

For years it never occurred to me there were hard-working patriotic conservatives who lived in California in what appeared to me to be a cesspool of insanity and government state nannyism. Funny when you wear your faults on your back, you can’t see others see you just the same way. Funny, that.

I don’t treat people that way now. I give conservatives from Madison, Ithaca or Berkeley a break, even if there may not be a lot of them. But they are there, just like like there are a lot of us up here in Massachusetts, hard as that may be for many Freepers to believe.

I always said I would never surrender and leave. I always said that I would stay and fight for what is a beautiful area, not willingly give it up.

This is my home. I cannot leave. If it were up to me, I would leave this state right now and never return, but it isn’t up to me. My wife does not view things this way, and she will never leave, and I love my wife, so I am sticking it out here. This is my lot in life.

But, just once (before my ideological foundation crumbled in the last several days as Brown voted on DADT, START, etc) I had a straw I could grasp at. Just one straw.

And it turned out to be just that. A straw. The last one.

So, yes. If it makes you and other Freepers feel better, yes, I was wrong. Do I have regrets? Yes. Do I wish I had voted for Coakley? Yes. I do.

All of you who don’t have to live up here cannot understand why I would write that last paragraph, mean every word of it even though it is a damned knife right in my chest as I say it, and you cannot begin to plumb the depths of my political anger, anguish, disillusionment and despair.

[trisham]

Hang in there. I’m from Massachusetts too, and I know how bleak the political landscape is. My father was in the Navy for 20 years, and 10 in the reserves. My parents met in Chatham during WWII, while both were in the Navy.

We have to keep fighting, because if we live here that’s all we can do. Just keep fighting.

[Palladin]

Yes. That’s even better.

[Ol' Sparky]

Brown needs to be exterminated from Congress even if it means allowing a Democrat to take the seat back.

It's past time RINOs like this realized they are going to do what their base wants or their political careers are over.

[Theodore R.]

You are a most admirable person. You just have rotten MA neighbors, and most of us don’t really get to pick our neighbors.

Is it the “something-for-nothing” mantra what most guides MA people?

[rlmorel]

Thanks, Trisham. I appreciate that you must understand. I hit a low the other day. I imagine people might wonder why I am so upset, after all, isn’t it “just politics”?

I would say yes, but this “just politics” is impacting every aspect of our lives, from the nanny-statism that tells us how hot our water can be in our shower and how much water can be flushed down the toilet to our ability to hold down a job or purchase affordable energy.

[rlmorel]

Heck. The people here aren’t any more rotten that a lot of other places, most of the voters are completely misguided, and have bought into the nanny-statism that is Massachusetts. I know lots and LOTS of liberals, but most of them aren’t moonbats (though we have PLENTY of them)

Most are the unthinking bleeding heart liberals who say “Why can’t our government help out the unemployed? Why can’t homosexuals be allowed to marry? Wouldn’t our money spent one national defense be better spent in our schools?”

And so on. They aren’t bad people. They aren’t evil. They just let their emotions drive all their logic, and never think one iota about the consequences of what their support of those things mean.

Couple that with the most corrupt, fixed political infrastructure in the country, and you have Massachusetts. I almost always think there is hope for this state but I ran out of that the other day.

I appreciate your post, though. It was nice to get some words of encouragement. I sure did need it. (and do)

[trisham]

this “just politics” is impacting every aspect of our lives, from the nanny-statism that tells us how hot our water can be in our shower and how much water can be flushed down the toilet to our ability to hold down a job or purchase affordable energy.

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Yes. The amount of control that has been assumed by our government has been increasing over many years, but the last two have had such an impact that even those who have been able to ignore much of it have finally opened their eyes. Imho, we may be more aware of it here in Mass because so many of our fellow citizens are liberals, but it affects us all to varying degrees, and those are narrowing month by month.

[DallasSun]

I doubt it. He is from Massachusetts after all. They are all collapsing like cheap lawn furniture. Amazing.